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It is difficult to see how it could be purely and simply the suppression of a given [homosexual] tendency, the rejection or repression of some more or less transferential drive he would have felt toward Flechsig, that led President Schreber to construct his enormous delusion. There really must be something more proportionate to the result involved. 15
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[[Foreclosure]] is thus antithetical to <i>[[Bejahung]]</i> ('[[affirmation]]').
FORECLOSURE
Lacan introduced the notion of foreclosure in the fifties
It designated a specfic phenomenon of the exclusion of a certain key-signifier (point de capiton, Name-of-the-Father) from the symbolic order, triggering the psychotic process.
Foreclosure is a distinctive feature of the psychotic phenomena.
For Lacan, what aws foreclosed from the Symbolic returns in the Real, in the form of hallucinatory phenomena, fo rexample.
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